How To Use barbican In A Sentence
- When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
- The loss of the barbican had also this unfortunate effect, that, notwithstanding the superior height of the castle walls, the besieged could not see from them, with the same precision as before, the operations of the enemy; for some straggling underwood approached so near the sallyport of the outwork, that the assailants might introduce into it whatever force they thought proper, not only under cover, but even without the knowledge of the defenders. Ivanhoe
- It has to be the octogenarian pianist's majestic performance at the Barbican. Times, Sunday Times
- -- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. Ivanhoe. A Romance
- The flamboyant frontman of rock group Queen will be remembered at the concert at The Barbican in York on Saturday November 24.
- The council squad has teamed up with staff at the Barbican, Courtney's Gym and Fitness First to limber up for Sunday's big event, and have been training since March.
- The white-out in and around the city caused match promoter Martin Witts to put the Barbican meeting between Jimmy White and Alex Higgins on hold.
- Could there ever be a venue more redolent of York's history than the Barbican?
- There's a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Barbican.
- ‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
